The Unstoppable Wasp by Sam Maggs

Author:Sam Maggs [Maggs, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2020-05-26T00:00:00+00:00

“So, we have one studio here and the other is out in the Bay area,” Margaret told Nadia as they wandered the HoffTech halls. Nadia had consented to a facial ID scan by the VERA at the front desk and signed rights to her firstborn child away should she violate the extremely stringent NDA she’d just committed to, but she understood how careful companies had to be about their proprietary tech. VERA was HoffTech’s lifeblood; if someone were to walk away with her secrets, it would destroy the company from the inside out. “San Francisco is fine, but I always wanted to come back and open a campus in New York. I’m too type-A for the West Coast. We don’t jibe.”

Nadia bobbed her head in understanding while craning her neck left and right, trying to take everything in. The office décor matched the lobby: plants everywhere, white-and-birch standing desks, floor-to-ceiling glass windows to let as much natural light in as possible. Like a greenhouse for computer scientists, Nadia thought. You can’t know a person through their things, but if Nadia had to try, she would say that Margaret’s office made her look focused and driven and goal-oriented.

“This is Programming.…” Margaret waved at a group of fashionable cubicles staffed by more people in ponytails, jeans, and hoodies. “And this is Core; they develop the toolset we use to design VERA. Her actual servers are down a floor, sealed and temperature-controlled. Those are the writers.” She waved into a dismal corner with all the blinds pulled down over the windows. “They don’t talk much, but they have a lot to say,” Margaret whispered to Nadia conspiratorially. Nadia laughed, the sound echoing across the quiet space.

Margaret tugged Nadia into a glass-enclosed office and settled into one of the gold-and-acrylic chairs surrounding the wooden table at its center. She gestured for Nadia to grab a spot, too. The massive flat-screen TV at one end of the table was on, a screen full of code visible with a bright red section—an error, a bug in the code that someone must have been working on. Nadia was so in awe of this place that Margaret had managed to build so quickly, and all on her own. She had a vision, and she’d executed it.

While Margaret fiddled with the VERA in the center of the table, Nadia indulged herself in a brief fantasy: G.I.R.L., completely and carefully redesigned in tasteful shades of gold and white and wood. The plants would be easy; Priya could handle that no problem. Taina probably wouldn’t want them in her space, but Nadia could deal with that issue when it came up.…

“Here, I’ll give you the spiel,” Margaret said, bringing Nadia back to reality. The VERA cascaded in all its pixelated glory, and Margaret started what sounded like a talk she’d given hundreds if not thousands of times before, her tenor only betraying her slightly. “HoffTech is at the intersection of people and technology, a company designed around the core concept that

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